The vase is attributed to the Agrigento Painter, an artist who was active in Attica in the middle years of the 5th c. BC. On the main face is a komos scene: a girl musician is playing a double-flute (diaulos) and a young man is holding a seven-stringed lyre (barbiton) and possibly singing; between them is a dancing himation-clad youth who suddenly discovers that the kylix he holds is empty of wine. An ivy-wreathed youth in front of the girl musician carries an amphora on his shoulder. On the other side of the vessel are four himation-clad youths conversing in pairs. Wine, dance and music are the three basic ingredients of the komos – a popular subject in Greek art and specially in Attic vase-painting. In komos scenes, mortals are frequently depicted returning from a symposium or en route to another one, dancing and sometimes exhibiting explicitly amorous intentions. The krater (which was used for mixing wine with water) and the vases illustrated in the scene (the amphora containing wine and the kylix for drinking wine) also relate to the symposium.